{"id":398057,"date":"2026-09-12T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:50:11","slug":"gcg-week-4-fort-myers-beat-mariner-21-13-to-win-third-straight-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398057\/","title":{"rendered":"GCG Week 4: Fort Myers beat Mariner 21-13 to win third straight game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GCG Week 4: Fort Myers beat Mariner 21-13 to win third straight game<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers beat Mariner 21-13 in their Week 4 matchup as the Green Wave claimed their third win in a row.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/news-team\/befbecd3-08d7-4f1c-87ee-b66778008cf9\" aria-label=\"Bradley Shimel profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789235411_533_befbecd3-08d7-4f1c-87ee-b66778008cf9_1757021547.JPG\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Bradley Shimel\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Fort Myers High defeated Mariner 21-13 in their Week 4 matchup.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">In their previous matchup, the Green Wave defeated the Tritons on a walk-off 70-yard touchdown, but a lot has changed since then, including the addition of two new head coaches on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Green Wave were able to forge ahead and maintain their lead thanks to a score from Kamarien McKay.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">However, their quarterback Anthony Mendes was injured earlier in the game and did not return, which turned the game into a defensive battle.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Both teams traded possessions, but the Green Wave ultimately prevailed as they claimed their third straight victory.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">With the win, Fort Myers improves to 3-1 on the year, and it will go for its fourth win in 2026 as it faces Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Meanwhile, the Mariner Tritons will look to get back on track as they head to Island Coast on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment, and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GCG Week 4: Fort Myers beat Mariner 21-13 to win third straight game Fort Myers beat Mariner 21-13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,897,152296,38766,36016,9514,158606,2163,9299,11273,32899,10438,156419,158605,88176,8007],"class_list":["post-398057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fort-myers","tag-gcg-week","tag-green-wave","tag-mariner","tag-matchup","tag-new-head-coach","tag-possession","tag-score","tag-team","tag-third-straight-game","tag-touchdown","tag-tritons","tag-walk-off","tag-wbbh","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}